Path: csiph.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Kaz Kylheku Newsgroups: comp.programming,comp.security.misc Subject: Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Followup-To: comp.programming Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 15:05:23 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 29 Message-ID: <20150807075136.215@kylheku.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: OGJi3KNpFOhM58UHZwXj0w.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:5596 comp.security.misc:1117 ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.programming.] On 2015-08-07, Mok-Kong Shen wrote: > Am 07.08.2015 um 09:57 schrieb Johannes Bauer: >> On 07.08.2015 09:48, Mok-Kong Shen wrote: >>> >>> From an article of Glenn Greenwald >>> (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/20144/02/24/jtrig-manipulation) >>> I found the following interesting paragraph: >> >> Which has to with with programming exactly *what*? > > I just wanted to call attention to the phenomenon of defamation > which unfavorably affects the discussion atmosphere in many groups. Why don't you pause to lookup up "defamation" in an English dictionary? Now what you've used the word several times, it is high time to formally introduce yourself to its definition. Defamation means that someone utters or writes something false about you which damages your public reputation. (Uttered defamation is "slander" and written defamation is "libel".) Defamation would occur if someone announces that, for instance, he has seen you steal something from a store. Some members of the public believe it, and so your reputation is tarnished. The announcement only defamation if it isn't true. "You're an idiot" isn't defamation; it's clearly just an opinion. Such an opinion can be a justified, evidence-based comment on someone's recent output in a network forum.